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I forgot I had a text file of these quotes.

1. "You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love: the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip..." ~anon

2. "Any man can know their faith but it takes a a real man to show their faith." ~anon

3. "The heart has ways the mind can not understand." ~anon

4. "Why not go out on a limb? Is that not where the fruit is?" ~anon

5. "In order to have friends you must be one yourself." ~anon

6. "Are you gonna get any better or is this it?" ~anon

7. "You must keep moving in your life...it gives God the chance to open and close doors." ~anon

8. "Only you can close the door to your heart." ~anon

9. "Honeymoon: The time between "I Do" and "You'd Better" ~anon

10. "Friends are God's apology for relations." ~Hugh Kingsmill

11. "Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching." ~anon

12. "Life is like a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. Each day a new story will unfold before you And reveal your worth as a person. Live each day to it fullest Because there is a destiny in all of us And you never know when or where Your novel will end. " ~anon

13. "I am reaching and embracing the new even though it is sometimes painful for awhile" ~anon

14. "During this time in my life, my friends are my foundation. Carefully chosen and layed, they are what keep me strong. Without them I have no base, And the smallest of winds may make me crumble." ~Leslie Ostlund

15. "In the world you may be only one person, but to one person you may be the world. " ~anon

16. "Accept that some days you are the pigeon, And some days you are the statue." ~anon

17. "Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." ~Williard Marriot

18. "The friendship that can cease has never been real." ~St. Jerome

19. "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

20. "As I climb the mountain of life, the only barrier that I face, is myself." ~Kelli Meehan

21. "If you don't have anything nice to say, come over and sit by me." ~Steel Magnolias

22. "Dancing is just a conversation between two people; talk to me" ~Hope Floats

23. "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" ~GK Chesterton

24. "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step" ~Lau-Tzu

25. "When you look in the eyes of fear, do not let those eyes be looking at a mirror." ~Vida Bejemino

26. My favorite for now --- >"You know you love someone when you want them to be happy even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it." ~anon

27. "You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed" ~ Ken Kersey

28. "Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

29. "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." ~ Albert Schweitzer

30. "Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead" ~ Chinese Proverb

31. "So often in life, things are only obvious once they are pointed out." ~ Vincent Bugliosi

32. "Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat." ~ Oscar Wilde

33. "It always pays to smile in the morning, because later in the day you may not feel like it." ~ Anonymous

34. "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped" ~ Afican Proverb

35. "The future has a way of arriving unannounced" ~ George F. Will

36. "Happiness is perfume you cannot pour on others without spilling a few drops on yourself." ~ Unknown

37. "There Are Hundreds Of Languages In The World, But A Smile Speaks All Of Them" ~ Anonymous

38. "It is never to late to be what you might have been." ~ george eliot

39. "The only sure thing about luck is that it will change." ~bret harte

40. "It ain't braggin' if you can do it." ~dizzy dean

41. "Everyone is like the moon and has a dark side which he never shows anybody." ~mark twain

42. "All our souls are written in our eyes." ~edmond rostand

43. "Dream ass if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." ~james dean

44. "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right" ~Henry Ford

45. "I was born qualified, I just go to college to certify" ~Frank W. Hale

46. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~unknown

47. "God saw a tear and kissed it away with a smile from a friend." ~A. LeBlanc

48. "If you love it set it free, If it comes back it was meant to be, If it doesn't, It never was." ~Carrie

49 "If it wasn't for bad luck, I would have no luck at all" ~Eddie Mush, A Bronx Tale

50. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door" ~Milton Berle

51. "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog" ~Dwight

52. "No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever" ~unknown

53. "Love is a passion which comes often we know not how, and which goes in like manner." ~Anonymous

54. "Love will find its way through paths where wolves would fear to prey." ~Lord Byron

55. "The magic of first love is the ignorance that it can ever end." ~Benjamin Disraeli

56. "Love comes unseen; we only see it go." ~Austin Dobson

57. "Be hold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for." ~Ruth Boorstin

58. "Pickpockets make their living picking the right pocket." ~R. McKenzie

59. "I do what the voices in my head tell me" ~anon

60. "He who knows not and knows he knows not is wise follow him." ~anon

61. "If they say that it's the thought that counts, then...what were you thinking?" ~anon

62. "Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans" ~John Lennon

63. "What a man wants is a virgin who acts like a whore." ~Gloria Steinman

64. "Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow. Do not walk be hind me I may not lead, just walk beside me and be my friend." ~anon

65. "There is no aspect of life that cannot be dealt with" ~Alexander T

66. "All the things I would really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening." ~Alexander Woollcott

67. "Don't be so humble. You're not that great." ~Golda Meir

68. "If all you have ever had is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as a nail." ~Adler or Durkheim

69. "Don't look at me when I'm not talking to you!" ~Bob Bellamy

70. "The face is the mirror of the mind, the eyes withought speaking confess the secrets of the heart" ~anon

71. "Time is a waste of life, life is a waste of time - so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives" ~anon

72. "If you can't convince them, confuse them." ~Harry S Truman

73. "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." ~Orson Welles

74. "Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die." ~anon

75. "The only thing you need to fear is fear itself." ~anon

76. "If every man helped his neighbor, no man would be without help." ~Bruce Lee

77. "The sun shines not on us but in us." ~anon

78. "There lives in each of us a hero awaiting the call to action!" ~anon

79. "Man is Nature's sole mistake!" ~W.S. Gilbert

80. "Love isn't an art, but a celebration of another one's company. The one that loves is the one that lives. The one that hates is the one that dies" ~Keith Oscar Williams

81. "Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?" ~anon

82. "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings" ~William Blake

83. "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~anon

84. "They say the truth hurts, but lies are even worse." ~By Quincy in San Francisco

85. "In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." ~anon

86. "When aiming for perfection we see that it is a moving target." ~anon

87. "Color, seen by candlelight, will not look the same by day." ~Elizabeth Barret Browning (Things are never how they seem!)

88. "There is nothing more annoying that to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting." ~Mark Twain

89. "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." ~Mark Twain

90. "Why am I upset when I realize I am different from everyone, but angry when I realize I'm the same?" ~anon

91. "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got." ~anon

92. "Courage, is fear that has said it's prayers" ~anon

93. "Let tomorrow take care of tomorrow, leave things of the future to fate" ~Charles Swain

94. "No matter how fair the sun shines, still it must set" ~Ferdinand Raimund

95. "A teacher, if he is indeed wise does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." ~anon

96. "Examine the contents, not the bottle." ~The Talmud

97. "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." ~Theodore Roosevelt

98. "We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them." ~Duc de La Rochefoucauld

99. "Enough about us, let's talk about me." ~Evan Dando {It's about time}

100. "I don't remember who met who first...I just remember all of us, all the time." ~St. Elmo's Fire

101. "Everything ends badly. Otherwise, it wouldn't end." ~[Cocktail] (Brian)

102. "I gotta take a stand. I'm not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect my life unfold to determine the course of my life. ~[Ferris Bueller's Day Off] (Cameron)

103. "Don't look back sweetheart. It's bad luck." ~[Hope Floats] (Birdie)

104. "If you judge people, you don't have time to love them." ~Mother Teresa

105. "Beginning are scary, Ending are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. You need to remember that when you find youself at the beginning...Just give hope a chance to float up-and it will." ~[Hope Floats] (Birdie)

106. "Maybe there isn't such a thing as fate. Maybe it's all bullshit." ~[Can't Hardly Wait] (Preston)

107. "Now don't start playing hard to get...You might miss something." ~[Shag] (Buzz)

108. "A true friend stabs you in the front." ~[Can't HArdly Wait]

109. "You never lose by loving, you always lose by holding back." ~Barbara D. Angelis

110. "If you can't say something bad about a relationship, don't say anything at all." ~[Seinfeld] (George)

111. "I do think there is such a thing as fate. It just works in really fucked up ways." ~[Can't Hardly Wait] (Denise)

112. "Some people think that its holding on to love that makes one strong. Sometimes, it is letting go." ~Anon

113. "There are silver ships and there are gold ships but there are no ships like friendships." ~Lavette Holland

114. "Love conquers all." ~Virgil

115. "When you don't like your job, you don't go on strike. You just come in every day and do it really half-assed. It's the American way!" ~Homer Simpson

116. "No man is worth your tears, And the one who is will never make you cry." ~Anon

117. "Life is like a flowing river, There will always be obstacles trying to block our path, But we will get past them no matter how large, Blindly following a path to a place we haven't seen, But know we must reach at all costs." ~Anon

118. "Life is like a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. Each day a new story will unfold before you, And reveal your worth as a person. Live each day to it fullest. Because there is a destiny in all of us. And you never know when or where Your novel will end." ~Anon

119. "Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such." ~Henry Miller

120. "Sometimes you must stand alone just to make sure you still can." ~Anon

121. "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for." ~Anon

122. "I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship." ~Anon

123. "If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, You might be able to help someone else Who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all..." ~Anon

124. "When we walk to the edge of all the light we have; And take the step into the darkness of the unknown; We must believe that one of two things will happen...There will be something solid for us to stand on....... or we will be taught to fly." ~Anon

125. "A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart" ~Anon

126. "Change is the law of life And those who look only to the past or the present are certian to miss the future. ~JFK

127. "Those who come to destroy me will only make me stronger." ~Nietzshe

128. "Sometimes being a bitch is all a women has left to hold on to." ~Delores Claiborn

129. "In the process of finding yourself, you lose yourself." ~Anon

130. "The only person you have to answer to is yourself, but you do have to answer." ~Anon

131. "Don't major in minor things." ~Anon

132. "Enjoy life ... This is not a rehearsal." ~Anon

133. "I hope life isn't a big joke ... because I don't get it." ~Anon

134."Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." ~Franklin P. Jones

135. "True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable." ~David Tyson Gentry

136. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." ~M. Kathleen Casey

137. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." ~Albert Einstein

138. "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he will never be dissappointed." ~Benjamin Franklin

139. "If you can't convince them, confuse them." ~Harry S Truman

140. "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once." ~Anon

141. "Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial." ~Sydney Biddle Barrows

142. "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac." ~George Carlin

143. "For what it's worth, it was worth all the while" ~Green Day {Time of Your Life}

144. "Been there, done that, now what?" ~Anon

145. "Stop looking for Prince Charming, Cinderella's already got him." ~Anon

146. "If T.V. is so bad for you, why is there one in every hospital room?" ~Anon

147. "If you were thinking, you wouldn't have thought that" ~Squints(The Sandlot)

148. "Enjoy yourself-these are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead." ~Anon

149. "Live your life, because nobody else can live it for you." ~Anon

150. "Friends are angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." ~Anon

151. "To ASSUME, is to make an ASS out of U and ME." ~Anon

152. "Men were given two things-a brain, and a penis, but only enough blood to run one at a time!" ~Robin Williams

153. "Everything is everthing, what's meant to be will be. After winter must come spring, cause everything is everything" ~Lauryn Hill

154. "The problem with problems is that once you solve one another comes along" ~Anon

155. "I seem to have missed number 155 when doing this list" ~ Dups

156. "Surprise and creativity spark the fires of romance." ~Anon

157. "Flowers, like women, bring beauty into the world and belong together." ~Anon

158. "Open up my head and let me out!" ~Dave Matthew's Band

159. "Success is the greatest revenge." ~unknown

160. "Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up." ~a "wise man"

161. "I'm not confused, I'm well mixed." ~Robert Frost

162. "Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end." ~Semi-Sonic (from "Closing Time")

163. "There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people." ~Anwar Sadat

164. "Die, dear Auntie Mab? Now that's the last thing I shall do." ~Mordred (in Merlin)

165. "A psychiatrist is someone who hopefully finds out what makes a person tick before they explode!" ~Alfred E. Neuman

166. "Better to remain silent and thought to be a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." ~Mark Twain

167. "It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off." ~Woody Allen

168. "I'm not paranoid but I know that you all think I am." ~Anon

169. "No matter what anybody tells you, you can never have too much sugar." ~Michael (in Michael)

170. "Life is like mail- sometimes you just don't get it!" ~Anon

171. "Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other." ~Louise Erdrich

172. "Don't play stupid with me... I'm better at it!" ~Bumper sticker

173. "Some people care too much. I think it's called love." ~Pooh

174. "We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." ~Eeyore

175. "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." ~Albert Einstein

176. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

177. "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." ~Aesop

178. "Love shall wait for its proper time." ~Anon

179. "Will power is eating just one salted peanut." ~Anon

180. "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle" ~Plato

181. "Those who have not tasted the bitterest of life's bitters can never appreciate the sweetest of life's sweets." ~Chinese proverb

182. "It's better to regret somthing you did then something you didn’t do." ~Red Hot Chili Peppers (from "One Hot Minute")

183. "But love is blind, and lovers cannot see / The pretty follies that themselves commit." ~Jessica (in The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)

184. "All that glitters is not gold." ~Morocco reading a scroll (in The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)

185. "...nothing is / But what is not." ~MacBeth (in MacBeth by Shakespeare)

186. "As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away." ~Hughes Mearns (from "The Psychoed")

187. "It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right." ~Moliere

188. "Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world." ~Archimedes

189. "When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." ~Mark Twain

190. "Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change." ~Anon

191. "If it's not on fire then it's a software problem." ~Computer aphorism

192. "Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it." ~Anon

193. "When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it." ~E. W. Hobe

194. "I am NOT suffering from insanity... I happen to be enjoying myself!" ~Anon

195. "War does not determine who's right; war determines who's left." ~Anon

196. "Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself." ~Plato

197. "When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing." ~Joseph Roux

198. "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." ~Michel de Montaigne

199. "If you cry because the sun has gone down in your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." --unknown

200. "A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer." ~Amanda Grier

201. "A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." ~Fr. Jerome Cummings

202. "God gave people a mouth that closes and ears that don't, which should tell us something." ~Anon

203. "Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." ~Frank Tyger

204. "Don't judge those who try and fail, judge only those who fail to try" ~Anon

205. "I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy, than to be a success at something I hate" ~Anon

206. "Those who want to succeed will find a way, those who don't will find an excuse" ~Anon

207. "What you see depends mainly on what you look for" ~Anon

208. "Forget regret or life is yours to miss." ~Rent

209. "There is enough for one and all so why does one man want it all." ~Burning spear

210. "I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave." ~Jimmy Cliff

211. "Eveything in life has its purpose find its reason." ~Bob marley

212. "In the end only kindness matters." ~Jewel

213. "Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth." ~Aesop

214. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." ~Robert Frost

215. "We must become the change we want to see." ~Gandhi

216. "To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest." ~Gandhi

217. "Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth." ~Aesop

218. "All great things are made up of little things" ~Anon

219. "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." ~Aristotle

220. "A faithful friend is the medicine of life." ~The Bible

221. "Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heartand his friends can only read the title." ~Virginia Wolf

222. "In prosperity our friends know us; In adversity we know our friends." ~Churton Collins, Aphorisms

223. "Trip over love and you can get up, Fall in love and you fall forever" ~Anon

224. "Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?" ~Cinderella

225. "Men always want to be the woman's first love and Women like to be the man's last romance" ~Anon

226. "A man falls in love thru his eyes and a woman thru her heart" ~Woodrow Wyatt

227. "LOVE: the irresistable desire to be irrestistable desired" ~Mark Twain

228. "Love is a friendship caught on fire" ~Anon

229. "Love is when you've run out of excuses for hating someone" ~Anon

230. "A man loses his sense of direction after 4 drinks, a woman loses hers after 4 kisses" ~H.L. Mencken

231. "Love is like quicksand, the more you fight it the faster you sink" ~Anon

232. "Love is as much of an object of obsession, everybody wants, everybody seeks it, but few ever acheive it, those who will, cherish it, be lost in it and among all never never forget it" ~Curtis Judalet

233. "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilites" ~Anon

234. "Let me not love you for the rest of your life, but for the rest of mine" ~Anon

235. "Everybody in love is blind" ~Propertius

236. "The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost" ~Gilber K. Chesterton

237. "One is very crazy when in love" ~Segmund Freud

238. "The course of love never ran smooth" ~William Shakespeare

239. "Love is wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise" ~Samuel Johnson

240. "Love understands what you are trying to say even when your thoughts arent finding the words" ~Anon

241. "Love is like an hourglass as the heart fills the brain empties" ~Anon

242. "I love you not because I need you, but I need you because I love you" ~Anon

243. "Everybody is somebody's daydream" ~Anon

244. "The stolen kisses are always the sweetest" ~Anon

245. "If you want it, but you dont, and you cant understand it, but you do, it must be love" ~Anon

246. "Love is like an earthquake- unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are." ~Anon

247. "The head doesnt disobey the heart it only becomes its partner in crime" ~Anon

248. "Old love never rust" ~Anon

249. "Love is a game 2 can play and both win" ~Anon

250. "When you are in love life should not be measured by the moments of breath, but by the breathless taken moments." ~Anon

251. "When the "one" is nearby, the entire body feels it" ~Anon

252. "Love is something that tickles the heart and puzzles the brain" ~Anon

253. "To love is true when it comes from the heart and not from the mouth" ~Anon

254. "A woman's heart is an ocean of secrets" ~From Titanic

255. "What holds you together is far greater than what can tear you apart" ~Anon

256. "Love is a thing thats never out of season" ~Anon

257. "You cant blame gravity for falling in love" ~Anon

258. "Real love stories never have an ending" ~Anon

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Well, That's all that I had. Feel free to post any quotes you love. I love reading quotes.... as you can see.
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Post by Kilmoll the Sexy »

Lets not forget:

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

and

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How about: More is less, less is more.
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I didnt read it all but some :)

went to like 102
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152. "Men were given two things-a brain, and a penis, but only enough blood to run one at a time!" ~Robin Williams
Wasn't that originally by Benjamin Franklin or something?
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Dups sucks.
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.....at?
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